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This book has two aims: first, to examines the evolving role of the state, and non-state actors, coupled with trends - including globalization, populism, post-truth, enlightened capitalism, feminist foreign policy, energy disruption, climate change, emerging cyber and other technologies, and the crisis in UN-centered multilateralism, to offer a prescient assessment of global affairs in the near future; and, second, to solidify the transdisciplinary nature of Global Affairs as a field of study that transcends the traditional conceptual silos.
List of contents
Chapter 1. Introduction: Navigating Unchartered Waters.- Chapter 2. The Turbulent Future of International Relations.- Chapter 3. A Kaleidoscopic Future: The State and Assemblages in Global Affairs.- Chapter 4. The Empiricism Strikes Back: Strategies for Avoiding a Post-Truth World.- Chapter 5. Towards an Enlightened Form of Capitalism: The Changing Role of Private Organizations in the Context of Global Affairs.- Chapter 6. International Justice and The International Criminal Court at a Critical Juncture.- Chapter 7. Feminist Principles in Global Affairs: Undiplomatic Practice.- Chapter 8. Taking Conflict Transformation Education Seriously.- Chapter 9. A Changing Agenda for International Development.- Chapter 10. Cyber Competition and Global Stability.- Chapter 11. The Upending of the Geopolitics of Energy: Disruption is the New Normal.- Chapter 12. The Future of Climate Action: From Systems Change to Behavior Change.- Chapter 13. The United Nations: Managing Unrealistic Expectations.
About the author
Christopher Ankersen is Clinical Associate Professor at the Center for Global Affairs, New York University School of Professional Studies. He is Senior Research Fellow at the German-Southeast Asian Center of Excellence for Public Policy and Good Governance (CPG), Bangkok.
Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu is Clinical Associate Professor and leads the UN Specialization at the Center for Global Affairs, New York University School of Professional Studies. He is also Associate Fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and Guest Faculty at the NATO Defense College, Rome.
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"This thought-provoking collection of essays surveys today's troubled system of global governance. ... Only this approach will help scholars understand an increasingly 'complex, dynamic, and fragile' world." (G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs, foreignaffairs.com, May - June, 2021)
